AI has difficulties with Adventure Pack mod

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In my last epic style game with 7 opponents on a large map (ridic/callenge) with spawning monsters and the adventure pack mod, I encountered only 2 AI players after fully exploring the map by turn 400+.  Tarth had 5 cities, and another faction had only 1 undeveloped city.  No other AI's were encountered.  I did find what appeared to be many start locations, where food + 2 other resources were clustered.  Large stacks of monsters roamed, sometimes 12+ in a stack, many with damage. 

 

I'm encountering something similar in my current game, this time set to ridic/hard with all other modifiers constant.  I've encountered 2 start locations, but the only sign of a potential AI is a light green tile where a city would have been founded.  Again, large damaged monster stacks nearby.

 

What I am wondering is if the monster spawn is too tough for the AI to handle when NOT set to ridic/ridic?  Is the early onset of a tough zombie/floating weapon/skeleton wandering in, much less a stack, overpowering to the AI factions?

 

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Are you changing the world difficulty, but forgetting to change the AI difficulty?

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Well, there's no way to set the monster spawn rating by modding. So, this could be a game thing, or just blind luck, or as Heavenfall suggested, perhaps you didn't change the difficulty level on the AI.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, in the first game each AI was set to challenging, and in the second the AI is set to Hard.  I may do a test on Ridic as well. 

 

I also need to clarify that I've been playing with Mods only, and have not tried an unmodded version of the game (mad props to heavenfall ;D).

Since I have not played unmodded, I don't know if it is any different, hence the question.